I am Siobhan Esposito, the widow of Captain Phillip Esposito, who was brutally murdered in Iraq along with First Lieutenant Louis Allen by Alberto Martinez, a soldier under my husband's command.
This is my personal testament to the injustice to which I have been forced to stand witness.

Thursday, September 19, 2013

A Mother's Sorrow

According to the CNN, Cathleen Alexis, the mother of the Navy Yard killer, has expressed her sympathies to the family-members of her son's victims.

Washington Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis' mother apologized Wednesday
for her son's actions, saying she was glad that he is "now in a place
where he can no longer do harm to anyone."

"I don't know why he did
what he did, and I'll never be able to ask him why," Cathleen Alexis
said in a statement recorded by CNN.

"I'm so, so very sorry this has happened. My heart is broken," she said.

Through her statement, Ms. Alexis has done something that family of Staff Sergeant Alberto Martinez has never seen fit to do: express heartfelt sorrow over the cruelty unleashed by her son. As the spouse of one of Staff Sergeant Martinez's murdered victims, I commend Ms. Alexis for her moral courage and sense of decency.

1 comment:

Anonymous
said...

It has been a long seven years. our family is in our thought s and prayers. Not a lawyer however does the "Dual Sovereignty" Doctrine apply in this case since the murder offended NYS Law, Federal, and military law as well as Civil. It seems to me that Martinez may be tried fully under this principle as well as civilly? Just a thought.